Cloudflare’s widespread outage was intermittent Tuesday morning. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Cloudflare, an Internet traffic service, said an error that brought widespread outages to an untold number of websites and applications across the globe Tuesday has been resolved.
Cloudflare provides security services to millions of websites and companies. The outages reported Tuesday morning meant users couldn’t visit some of those sites, including social media site X, Google, OpenAI and Spotify, CBS News reported. Workers for some companies were also unable to access behind-the-scenes network systems, including United Press International.
In an update posted just before 10 a.m. EST, Cloudflare said it fixed the problem, though some customers may still have issues accessing its dashboard, CNBC reported.
“We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal,” the company said.
Cloudflare provided regular updates throughout the morning on its website, mostly stating that it was “continuing to work on a fix for this issue.”
Services periodically returned throughout the incident, but would frequently go back offline.
“We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation errors,” Cloudflare said in one update.
The company described the issue as an “unidentified problem.”
A spokesperson for the company said in a statement to The Guardian that there was “a spike in unusual traffic.”
“That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors. While most traffic for most services continued to flow as normal, there were elevated errors across multiple Cloudflare services.
“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”
It’s unclear if the outages were related to scheduled maintenance Cloudflare was expected to carry out on datacenters in Tahiti, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Santiago, Chile.
